The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-06-09
NEWS AND NOTES.

1t Is officially announced that the
Crown Prince Of Germany will attend
the coming jubilee ceremonies in Lon
don.
The Camberwell Radical Club is
making arrangements to give Editor
OBrien banquet in behalf of the
Radicals and Irishmen Of London.
Gladstone writes that as the Unionis-
Liberals have assisted in passing to a
second reading the Permanent Coercion
bill, the Irish question is virtually settled
for the present.
The Journal de st. Petersburg says
that Turkey circular relative TO Bull
garia does not modify Russia's justified
refused to negotiate with the present
Bulgarian Regency.
Charlie Ross, stolen from Philadel-
phia thirteen years ago, has been found
again. He is now reported An inmate
Of the Connecticut State Prison, but the
story is not credited.
DR.. Alfred K. Wallace, the eminent
English naturalist, is lecturing in San
Francisco. He has no difficulty in de-
monstrating to the satisfaction of the
Pacific coast people that the New York
dude is descended from the ape.
The Rev. H. w. Dodge Of jackson
vile, Fla, is authority for the story
that Mr. Peck of New York not long
ago caught with rod and line tarpon
over six feet in length, weighing 200
pounds. It was doubtless weighed on
fish scales.
President Grevy made personal
donation of 10000 francs for the bene-
fit Of the sufferers by the Opera Comi-
que fire. No search has yet been made
in the upper galleries for the bodies of
persons supposed to have lost their
lives there.
Mrs. L. F. Badly Of California is
endeavoring to establish colony of
silk culturists in Maryland. A tract Of
100 acres will be divided among ten
colonists, and by next spring she hopes
to have the experiment fully under way.
Oscar Wilde has blossomed out as =
novelist Of the blood-and-thunder school
One of the London society papers is
printing q serial story from his pen.
entitled Lord Arthur Savilles Crime;
Tale Of Cheiromancy."
The grain porters at the Avenmouth
docks Bristol, who struck against the
use of elevators in unloading vessels,
have gone back to work, the employers
having promised to use elevators only
when they were ins0fiiciently supplied
with manual labor.
Prof. dwight Of Columbia says Of
Henry Georges theory: Without pri-
vate property in land no man can have
an assured birthplace or burial place.
No tree can be planted that he can call
his own. nor can any dwelling be erect
ed that will give him assured shelter. !"
Senator ingalls,. in his late address at
Abilene, Kas.. took radical grounds ON
the suffrage question. In the plainest
terms he expressed a conviction that the
reception Of foreigners was mistake,
that the admission Of the negro race to
| the franchise was = mistake, and that to
sOAAOA suO PllsHCe0 OH WO1uVu WOulNs
be another mistake.
Hormusjee Eduljee koteivae. one O.
the best sportsmen that ever lived, res
emily died in a Bombay hospital. Thi
gentleman, who was Parsee, reioiced
in the title of Tiger slayer. which he
had well earned by killing hundred
tigers. His death was caused by a
cheetah, q curious beast not often
seen in America.
The Rev. Henry Van Rensselaer,. a
member of the well-known Albany
family Of that name, and therefore .
minister of the Episcopal Church, was
Friday ordained a Catholic priest.
and will hereafter devote himself to
work among the Indians of Montana.
The King of the Belgians is said by
Continental papers to be engaged on =
'.HistOry of the conquest of England by
the Normans." His recent visit to
England is declared to have been UNDER
taken with the purpose Of personally
examining the battlefield of Hastings.
John Roach possessed genuine Irish
wit. When he came to this country he
was only Is years old. Some time af-
ter his arrival he met one of his father $
most intimate friends, who asked him
how he was getting along. "Getting
along foine,' said he. ..Shure, when
kem to this country hadn't rag to
me back, an now I'm covered all over
wild them.'
Benjamin F. Butler has been giving
advice to the students of the Boston
University Law School. One Of the
most characteristic Of his remarks ran
as follows: make bargain about
your fees, and be sure to do this early
and get your pay early" There is nc
reason to believe that the advice will
be neglected.
Lamar Fontaine, who claims the
authorship of "All quiet along the
Potomac tonight is witness inS<he
trial Of Hamilton for the murder -
Gambrell At Jackson. Miss. He appear
as an expert in pistol practice, and it i.
claimed that he is able to fire q number
Of shots into the bunghqle Of barre
rolling down hill.
| DR.. Elliot Coues, the noted ornitholo
gist Of the Smithsonian Institute
recently became impregnated with th.
doctrine Of the thoosophs, and is nov
a Buddhist from his head to his heals
Some days ago he made farewell
address before learned body of which
he was member and which had giver
him the cold shoulder. This Learned
body refused to have the address pu
into print, and SO Dr. e. has had th,
discourse struck off at his own expense
He considers himself as one persecutet
for conscience sake.
Writing Poetry.
Theodore Tilton is in Paris. II an
just now,' he said the other day to
correspondent of the Pittsburg Dis